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Windows 7: Active Window Toggles/Flickers

The active window toggles or flickers for the lack of better term; about every ten seconds the active window flickers and while this is happening all control via the keyboard and mouse stops. The mouse forgets what it was doing, and if I was typing it stops and sometimes the text becomes highlighted when I start typing all of the highlighted text is gone.

Active Window Toggles/Flickers

Active window becomes inactiveAnytime I have a window open, be it Firefox, Word, Start Menu, etc., this will happen every 30 seconds or so. It started happening a few days ago, seemingly out of nowhere. Any thoughts on what may be causing this problem?

General Discussion

Windows 7 Jumplist flickers and Chrome menu flickersHello, does anybody when clicking the bookmark arrow or a folder with bookmarks in chrome gets a small (i mean very fast!) black flickering???
Also in Windows 7 Jumplist sometimes when opening it will show aero glass before populating with icons (also very fast)
Can someone check this out to...

General Discussion

Keyboard Media TogglesHi , I have just purchased a new keyboard as my old one was faulty. And have a little issue.
The Play/Pause, |<< and the >>| buttons do not work with iTunes, they work with everything else.
Funny thing is it DID work with iTunes before i installed the latest driver and rebooted. Lol
So how...

Hardware & Devices

Tab title flickers on window resizeHi,
Just reinstalled Windows 7 x64 (no SP1) and I noticed a weird problem. It happens everywhere, but I can best explain it with Task Manager. If you have Task Manager open and you try to resize the window with your mouse, the top tabs (Applications, Processes, Services etc.) flicker.
I have...

General Discussion

Open Excel workbook in active window rather than first windowHi,
I have recently upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010 and though I'm starting to get used to all the changes there is one thing which is really bugging me.
When I have two separate Excel windows open and open an Excel file from Windows Explorer the file will open in the first window not...

Microsoft Office

Shaking the active windowI noticed that if you grab the active window in W7 and "shake" it, all other windows are minimized. Is this a new feature in Windows 7???